Word: parroted
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...these were thoroughly familiar to the art world and so were four of the five Goyas that were sent to Brooklyn. But the fifth seemed definite news: a Portrait of a Lady, in an elaborate feathered headdress, blue & white striped dress, holding a painted fan, and with a parrot perched beside her. It was a fine example of lusty Goya's most typical manner. The canvas had not been shown in either the Goya centennial exhibition in Spain, or in the great Goya loan show in Manhattan last year (TIME, April 23, 1934). It was not reproduced...
Less adaptable than other Greeks last week was a parrot in an Athenian cafe, trained to talk in happier times and not one to forget old tricks quickly. Over and over, to everybody's horror, he kept screaming with pride, "Hurray for Venizelos! Death to his enemies!" Once this patter had earned him crackers. Last week it got him a slit throat...
...were aroused from their customary places in the cafes by a penetrating shriek, "Long live Venizelos, and the revolution." Fearing a new uprising, they rushed out en masse to locate the culprit, only to find that the object of their anxiety was no more than a trained parrot. Rebel sympathizers now fear for the life of the parrot...
...pound class--Parrot (A) defeated Gordon F. Robertson '36 (H) by decision...
...college rather than on the entrance examinations is stressed. College study demands not so much a definite quota of facts-the variety of subjects accepted for entrance proves this but for that "ability to think," which is identical with the "ability to learn," in any but the most parrot-like sense. It is in this latter sense indeed, that it is encouraged by the present system of entrance examinations, and it is in this sense that the word "pate-stuffing" has been applied. Scholarship, it is true, can not be sacrificed to "culture," but neither should it be sacrificed...